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Visit our booth at TEDxHarvardCollege 2016!

When: September 18, 2016 at 1 PM Where: Sanders Theater Join us at the CHS’ booth at TEDxHarvardCollege 2016 conference Incite Insight! Stop by to learn more about our publications (in print and online), the Center’s programs, symposiums and other activities that happen all year round. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein Humanity’s pursuit… Read more

Meet the Fall Term Fellows!

The Center for Hellenic Studies supports scholars and their research with a variety of configurations. All fellows receive an appointment for at least one academic year. Fellows receive varying levels of support and may reside at the Center for a term up to 17 weeks, depending on the scope and needs of their proposed projects. For more information about their research, see the CHS Research Bulletin. 2016 Fall Term Fellows Joachim… Read more

CHS Open House: Sappho 44, with Gregory Nagy

Gregory Nagy of Harvard University will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion about Sappho’s Song 44 and about his postings on Classical Inquiries. The event takes place on Tuesday, September 6 at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Visit the Hour 25 website for the live stream event or watch and join the live chat on YouTube. On Song 44 The process… Read more

Classical Inquiries | A sampling of comments on Iliad Rhapsody 8

In his recent Classical Inquiries posting, Gregory Nagy focuses on Iliad rhapsody 8 and shares a sampling of selected comments with his readers. I.08.002 tagging: terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’ occurrences of terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’: I.01.419, I.02.478, I.02.781, I.08.002, I.11.773, I.12.252, I.16.232, I.24.529 anchor comment at I.08.002: terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’ This compound noun terpi-kéraunos, interpreted here as ‘he whose bolt strikes’, is an epithet that applies exclusively to Zeus: a… Read more

Classical Inquiries | A sampling of comments on Iliad Rhapsody 8

In his recent Classical Inquiries posting, Gregory Nagy focuses on Iliad rhapsody 8 and shares a sampling of selected comments with his readers. I.08.002 tagging: terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’ occurrences of terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’: I.01.419, I.02.478, I.02.781, I.08.002, I.11.773, I.12.252, I.16.232, I.24.529 anchor comment at I.08.002: terpikeraunos ‘he whose bolt strikes’ This compound noun terpi-kéraunos, interpreted here as ‘he whose bolt strikes’, is an epithet that applies exclusively to Zeus: a parallel… Read more

News from CHS | The Free First Thousand Years of Greek over the summer

The CHS team is pleased to share news of the forthcoming The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. This project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a multitude of resources and different versions of editions and publications on Greek. This initiative is part of a larger project, the Open Greek and Latin Project. Director of Publications and… Read more

News from CHS | The Free First Thousand Years of Greek over the summer

The CHS team is pleased to share news of the forthcoming The Free First Thousand Years of Greek project. This project seeks to present source texts of Classical Greek in an open, dynamic corpus that will change radically the accessibility to a multitude of resources and different versions of editions and publications on Greek. This initiative is part of a larger project, the Open Greek and Latin Project. Director of Publications and Information… Read more